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Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics is excited to be a part of social media community. Our organization is utilizing social media as a personalized way to connect our current and prospective patients with our over 670 patient care centers around the country.
Facebook and Twitter will keep you up to date with local and national Hanger news, patient accomplishments and events. The Hanger YouTube channel offers educational and inspirational videos about patients, new technology and life skills. |
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As we move our corporate headquarters to Austin, we're looking for an area artist to bring our company's and the city's shared values of creativity and innovation to life in our new offices. The Austin area is famous for its creative class, and we can't wait to be inspired by its talent.
To learn more about the competition and how to participate, please visit www.artroduction.com
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2010 ACA Conference
Hanger is very proud to be a sponsor of the Amputee Coalition of America 2010 National Conference, August 26-29, in Irvine, California.
Please stop by our booth # 403, 405, 407, 502, 504, 506.
To learn more about this event www.amputee-coalition.org/conference
62nd National Amputee / 21st National Senior Amputee Championships & 12th College Park Cup
September 7-10, Gaylord Springs Golf Club, Nashville, TN
Learn more www.nagagolf.org
CAF San Diego Triathalon Challenge
La Jolla Cove, San Diego, CA
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Coming Soon: Team Hanger
For more information, www.challengedathletes.org
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Physical mobility is one of the most essential qualities of being human, and the field of prosthetics and orthotics has made enormous strides in helping to restore this vital capability to those with physical challenges. Yet, for countless individuals in underserved areas of the United States and developing countries around the world, the availability of the necessary expertise, services and devices is limited — and in many cases, non-existent.
The Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation provides access to prosthetic and orthotic care to individuals in need who could not otherwise afford it — and thus restoring their ability to successfully perform activities of daily living. We do so in part by facilitating the charitable delivery of services, equipment and expertise by caring practitioners. We also seek to create larger, more sustainable solutions by expanding the capabilities of local practitioners in underserved areas through education, collaboration and support.
Visit www.hanger-sabelfoundation.org to learn more.
Haiti is still in need.
Learn what the foundation is doing and how you can help. |
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Learn about Amputee Empowerment Partners e-community; soon to be the largest and furthest reaching on-line resource for information, guidance, and perspective on issues related to limb loss and limb deficiencies for patients, families, care-givers, co-workers and friends. Learn More
Join the community at www.empoweringamputees.org
Download community information and step-by-step membership guide |
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I would like to personally invite you to our Amputee Empowerment Partners e-community; soon to be the largest and furthest reaching on-line resource for information, guidance, and perspective on issues related to limb loss and limb deficiencies for patients, families, care-givers, co-workers and friends.
This is our community and your participation in forums and blogs will help to make this site the best resource for real-life information from the people who really get it. Again, welcome and thank you for being here. |
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When I was a girl growing up, I spent many moments staring in the mirror at my reflection with my shiny, metal hook peeking out of my shirt sleeve. I often wondered, “Why me?” Why did I have to be born without my arm? Why wasn’t it someone else? Why weren’t there any other people like me?
I felt alone quite often and didn’t really know how to talk about why I felt that way. More importantly, I didn’t know who to talk to. Who could possibly understand what I was feeling? Though I wanted to pretend that not having an arm was “no big deal,” at times, it was all that I focused on. I used to get so frustrated trying to figure out how to do everyday things that everyone else took for granted like tying my shoes, putting my hair in a pony tail, cutting my own food on my plate. Ugh…why me?
With years and with experience, the answer to that question has revealed itself over and over to me. It’s answered when I visit a school and teach students that the only limits we have are the ones we place on ourselves in our own minds. It’s answered when I can sit with young, concerned parents who have a child who was born without a hand and I can show them that everything is going to be OK; that their baby will be able to become anything that he/she dreams of becoming. It’s answered when I teach a 70 year old woman to use her new prosthesis to peel vegetables for the first time in her life or to teach a 13 year old boy to tie his shoes. Why me? These are my answers.
And why AEP? Because every time a connection is made between people who really understand what each other is going through or has gone through, we become stronger, wiser, more aware and more empowered to see that we do not hold the potential to become all that we want to be in our extremities. In my opinion, our hands and our feet are bonuses, and if they’re lost to an injury, accident or disease or if they were never there at all, we will overcome and rise to the challenge to redefine and invent ourselves in our best light.
Losing a limb should impact a person significantly; but it does not define or limit him/her. It is our challenge to find meaning, purpose and hope in the face of our struggles. It comes easy to some and to others, it’s more difficult. Thus, Amputee Empowerment Partners; providing encouragement, support and help to those who need a little nudge getting over the hurdles. Wherever you fall in that continuum, know that there is a place for you here.
Why me? Why AEP? Because this was meant to be.
Carrie Davis
AEP National Coordinator
Upper Extremity Patient Advocate
Congenital below-elbow limb deficiency
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